Teacher Gifts

Time flies!  My Charles has finished his pre-school this June and will be going to kindergarten this September!  5 years ago, on July 18, my little peanut was induced after he'd been overdue for 10 days.  At the moment he came to this wold, he cried loudly and brought the most joyous moment of my life.

This picture was actually taken on the 20th while we were waiting for the routine blood test result and getting ready to go home.

Little peanut has grown into a {big} peanut now ~~

Since he went to pre-school, I've been helping him to make some little gifts for his teachers on Christmas.

We made these cute snowmen together in 2009.  I learned how to make this cute little snowman from a parenting magazine.  It's very easy to make, and all the materials can be found in any dollar store.  Charles doodled all the eyes and mouths, teachers' names and the glittered headbands.  I really love the way he drew the eyes and mouths.

Last year we made the gifts a little bit fancier.  But I forgot to take a picture of them after Charles had written all the names on tags.  You can see his handwriting didn't improve that much. :) :)  You may have seen this as I shared them here last year.

By the way, I used the Snow Days paper here by Crate Paper.  They looked "happy" as Charles said.

For the last gift to his pre-school teachers as a token of thank you, I had a very tight schedule to prepare them.  I did something very simple - just wrapping a chocolate bar. :)  And then Charles did the rest (well, most of the rest).

I created a separate "tag" for each one so that Charles can write down the names and decorated it a bit in his own way.  Love this butterfly punch that creates a butterfly whose body is still attaching to the paper, with the wings popping out.

These are all the gifts we made together for Charles' years in pre-school.  I treasure the time we spent together doing something meaningful.  I treasure the little talk we had while playing with paper, scissors and glue.  And I am feeling grateful to have such a wonderful boy!

hugs,
Yolanda